Dozen Sustain Injury As Turbulence Hit Qatar Airways Flight

Twelve people aboard a Qatar Airways QR017 flight were injured after the plane came in contact with a turbulence en-route Dublin, airport officials announced on Monday.

The flight, which came from Doha, landed at the Dublin Airport and was met by emergency services after six passengers and six crew members reported injuries, the Dublin Airport said on the social platform X.

The 12 individuals were assessed on the aircraft, eight of whom were taken to the hospital, the airport added.

The cause of the deadly turbulence is yet to be determined, and the National Transportation Safety Board said it would send a team of investigators to look into the incident.

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg warned that climate change is already impacting modes of transit. He noted that while incidents like the Singapore Airlines flight are “rare,” the U.S. needs to be prepared to adapt to the changing climate.

“We’ve seen that in the form of everything from heat waves that shouldn’t statistically even be possible, threatening to melt the cables of transit systems in the Pacific Northwest, to hurricane seasons becoming more and more extreme and indications that turbulence is up by about 15 percent. That means assessing anything and everything that we can do about it,” he said in a Sunday interview on CBS News’s “Face the Nation.”